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Lexicon :: Strong's H8045 - šāmaḏ

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שָׁמַד
Transliteration
šāmaḏ
Pronunciation
shaw-mad'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2406

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁמַד shâmad, shaw-mad'; a primitive root; to desolate:—destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, × utterly.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 90x

The KJV translates Strong's H8045 in the following manner: destroy (83x), destruction (1x), overthrown (1x), perished (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 90x
The KJV translates Strong's H8045 in the following manner: destroy (83x), destruction (1x), overthrown (1x), perished (1x), miscellaneous (4x).
  1. to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated

    1. (Niphal)

      1. to be annihilated, be exterminated

      2. to be destroyed, be devastated

    2. (Hiphil)

      1. to annihilate, exterminate

      2. to destroy

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁמַד shâmad, shaw-mad'; a primitive root; to desolate:—destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, × utterly.
STRONGS H8045: Abbreviations
[שָׁמַד]90 verb
Niph. be exterminated, destroyed (Late Hebrew derived species; Aramaic שְׁמַד Pa. cause to apostatize (Jastr); Syriac bdb102901 seems disputed (in Lexicons); NöEut. Nab. 32 curse; BaES 10 cites Assyrian ašmud, I destroyed; Gerber112 thinks verb denominative); — Perfect 3rd person masculine singular consecutive וְנִשְׁמַד Ezekiel 32:12 +, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשָּׁמֵ Isaiah 48:19; Proverbs 14:11; 2nd person masculine plural תִּשָּׁמֵד֑וּן Deuteronomy 4:26; Infinitiveabsolute הִשָּׁמֵד Deuteronomy 4:26; construct suffix הִשָּׁמֶדְךָ Deuteronomy 28:20, etc.; —
†1. of person be annihilated, exterminated, Genesis 34:30 (J), Judges 21:16; 2 Samuel 21:5 (+ מֵהִתְיַצֵּב בְּ; — but read לְהַשְׁמִידֵגוּ Greek Version of the LXX Ew We Dr and others), Psalm 37:38 (|| נִכְדָת), Psalm 83:11; of people Deuteronomy 4:26 (הִשָּׁמֵד תּשּׁ׳), Deuteronomy 7:23; Deuteronomy 12:30 (+ מִפָּנֶיךָ Deuteronomy 28:20 (|| אָבַד Deuteronomy 28:24; Deuteronomy 28:45; Deuteronomy 28:51; Deuteronomy 28:61, Jeremiah 48:42 (+מֵעִם. Ezekiel 33:12; Psalm 92:8 (+ עֲדֵיעַֿד, compare also וְלֹא יִשָּׁמֵד שְׁמוֺ מִלְּפָנָי֑ Isaiah 48:19 (+ יִכָרֵת; וַרְעֶ֑ךָ etc., in || clause).
†2. be destroyed, of bamoth, Hosea 10:8, compare (בֵּית רְשָׁעִים) Proverbs 14:11; be devastated, of land, Jeremiah 48:8 (|| אבר).
Hiph.69 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִשְׁמִיד Deuteronomy 2:22 +, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַשְׁמִיד Isaiah 13:9 +, וַיַּשְׁמֵד 1 Kings 16:12; 2 Kings 10:28, etc.; Imperative masculine singular הַשְׁמֵד Deuteronomy 33:27; Infinitive absolute הַשְׁמֵד Isaiah 14:28, יֵ֯ד Amos 9:8; construct לְהַשְׁמִיר Joshua 9:24 +, also †עַד הִשְׁמִידְךָ Deuteronomy 7:24, וֺ- Deuteronomy 28:48, ָ֯ ם - Joshua 11:14 (but read in all הַשׁ׳, as Joshua 23:15, see DrDeuteronomy 7:24), לַשְׁמִדIsaiah 23:11, etc.; —
1. annihilate, exterminate: accusative of person or a people, subject י׳ or human person, Deuteronomy 1:27; Deuteronomy 2:22 (+ מִפְּנֵי person), Deuteronomy 6:15 (+ הָאֲרָמָה מֵעַל־פְּנֵי), Deuteronomy 9:20 + 16 times Deuteronomy; Joshua 7:12 (accusative הַחֵרֶם; + מִקִּרְבְּכֶם), Joshua 9:24 + 4 times Joshua (all RD), 2 Kings 14:16; 1 Kings 13:34; Amos 9:8; Isaiah 13:9; Isaiah 26:14; Esther 3:6, 13 + 23 times; accusative וְשָׁרָשָׁיו פִּרְיוֹ (figurative) Amos 2:9, compare Ezekiel 34:16 (but Vrss Co Toy and others [not Hi Krae] אֶשְׁמֹר); אֶתשְֿׁמִי הִשׁ׳ 1 Samuel 24:22 (Gi 1 Samuel 24:21), 2 Samuel 22:38; 1 Kings 16:12; Psalm 145:20; הַשְׁמֵד as substantive, Isaiah 14:23 besom of extermination; accusative אֶתהַֿבַּעַל 2 Kings 10:28, of extirpating Baal-worship מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל.
†2. destroy, cities Micah 5:13, fortresses Isaiah 23:11, bamoth Leviticus 26:30 (H), Numbers 33:52 (P; || אִבֵּד), חֹזֶק מַמְלְכוֺת הַגּוֺיִם Haggai 2:22.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8046.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:30

Leviticus

26:30

Numbers

33:52

Deuteronomy

1:27; 2:22; 2:22; 4:26; 4:26; 4:26; 6:15; 7:23; 7:24; 7:24; 9:20; 12:30; 28:20; 28:20; 28:24; 28:45; 28:48; 28:51; 28:61; 33:27

Joshua

7:12; 9:24; 9:24; 11:14; 23:15

Judges

21:16

1 Samuel

24:21; 24:22

2 Samuel

21:5; 22:38

1 Kings

13:34; 16:12; 16:12

2 Kings

10:28; 10:28; 14:16

Esther

3:6; 3:13; 10

Psalms

37:38; 83:11; 92:8; 145:20

Proverbs

14:11; 14:11

Isaiah

13:9; 13:9; 14:23; 14:28; 23:11; 23:11; 26:14; 48:19; 48:19

Jeremiah

48:8; 48:42

Ezekiel

32:12; 33:12; 34:16

Hosea

10:8

Amos

2:9; 9:8; 9:8

Micah

5:13

Haggai

2:22

H8045

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8045 matches the Hebrew שָׁמַד (šāmaḏ),
which occurs 90 times in 86 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (1Ch 5:25–Zec 12:9)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:25 -

But they acted unfaithfully against the God of their fathers and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed H8045 before them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - “So now, behold, the sons of Ammon and Moab and [fn]Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt (they turned aside from them and did not destroy H8045 them),
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - Indeed, the sons of Ammon and Moab stood against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to devote them to destruction and to utterly eradicate H8045 them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to bring one another to ruin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - Thus Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray in order to do more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed H8045 before the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - But he despised in his eyes to send forth his hand against Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy H8045 all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And letters were sent by the hand of couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy H8045, to kill, and to cause all the Jews to perish, both young and old, little ones and women, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - He also gave him a copy of the written law which had been given in Susa for their destruction H8045, in order to show Esther and to tell her and to command her to go in to the king to implore his favor and to seek him out for her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:4 - for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed H8045, to be killed, and to be caused to perish. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the [fn]adversity would not be worth the [fn]annoyance to the king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11 - [fn]In them the king gave the Jews who were in each and every city the right to assemble and to make a stand for their lives, to destroy H8045, to kill, and to cause to perish the entire military force of any people or province which would act as their adversaries, including little ones and women, and to plunder their spoil,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:38 -

But transgressors will be altogether destroyed H8045;

The [fn]posterity of the wicked will be cut off.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:10 -

Who were destroyed H8045 at En-dor,

Who were as dung for the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 -

That when the wicked flourished like grass

And all the workers of iniquity blossomed,

It was only that they might be destroyed H8045 forevermore.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:23 -

Therefore He said that He would destroy H8045 them,

Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,

To turn away His wrath from [fn]eradicating them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:34 -

They did not destroy H8045 the peoples,

As Yahweh commanded them,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:20 -

Shin

Yahweh keeps all who love Him,

But all the wicked He will destroy H8045.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:11 -

The house of the wicked will be destroyed H8045,

But the tent of the upright will flourish.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 -

But it does not intend to act in this way,

And it does not think in its heart in this way,

Rather, what is in its heart is to destroy H8045

And to cut off [fn]many nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 -

Behold, the day of Yahweh is coming,

Cruel, with fury and burning anger,

To make the land a desolation;

And He will exterminate H8045 its sinners from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - “I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of [fn]destruction H8045,” declares Yahweh of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:11 -

He has stretched His hand out over the sea;

He has made the kingdoms tremble;

Yahweh has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish H8045 its strong defenses.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14 -

The dead will not live; the [fn]departed spirits will not rise;

Therefore You have visited and destroyed H8045 them,

And You have made all remembrance of them perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 -

“Your seed would have been like the sand,

And the offspring from your loins like its grains;

Their name would never be cut off or destroyed H8045 from My presence.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 -

“A destroyer will come to every city,

So that no city will escape;

The valley also will perish,

And the plateau will be destroyed H8045,

As Yahweh has said.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:42 -

“Moab will be destroyed H8045 from being a people

Because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:66 -

You will pursue them in anger and destroy H8045 them

From under the heavens of Yahweh!

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:9 -

“But if the prophet is enticed to speak a word, it is I, Yahweh, who have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy H8045 him from among My people Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - therefore, behold, I have stretched out My hand against you, and I will give you for plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands; I will destroy H8045 you. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:12 - “By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your multitude to fall; all of them are ruthless ones of the nations,

And they will devastate the lofty pride of Egypt,

And all its multitude will be destroyed H8045.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:16 - “I will search for the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken, and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy H8045. I will shepherd them with judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - “But reports from the East and from the North will dismay him, and he will go forth with great wrath to destroy H8045 and [fn]devote many to destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:8 -

Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be [fn]eradicated H8045;

Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars;

Then they will say to the mountains,

“Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 -

“Yet it was I who destroyed H8045 the Amorite before them,

[fn]Though his height was like the height of cedars,

And he was strong as the oaks;

I even destroyed H8045 his fruit above and his root below.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:8 -

“Behold, the eyes of Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom,

And I will destroy H8045 it from the face of the earth;

Nevertheless, I will not totally H8045 destroy H8045 the house of Jacob,”

Declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 -

“And I will uproot your [fn]Asherim from among you

And [fn]eradicate H8045 your cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22 - ‘I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy H8045 the strength of the kingdoms of the [fn]nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will go down, everyone by the sword of another.’
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:9 - “And it will be in that day, that I will seek to destroy H8045 all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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